At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhe….

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the conscious….

In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person….

I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, a….

There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the rel….

In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all..

If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation….

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today..

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth..

I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on..

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering..

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions..

If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Ca….

It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain..

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war..

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its….

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites..

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same t….

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years..

The Gospel has to be the norm..

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and ….